Sentences with phrase «new habitats forms»

The knowledge of how species colonize new habitats forms the basis for the preservation of refuges and targeted reintroduction and also helps prevent the spread of invasive species.

Not exact matches

And now, signs of new ventures — such as congregation - based teaching and related counterinstitutional forms — are questioning both oldline and evangelical teaching habitats.

«Seven new species of night frogs from India including four miniature forms: Scientists were surprised by the relative abundance of the 4 new miniature species and believe that these frogs were overlooked because of their insect - like calls and secretive habitats.»

«These climate changes may destroy the habitat of rodents or give new rodent forms a chance,» van Dam says.

From a physics perspective, everything that future life may want to create — from habitats and machines to new life - forms — is simply elementary particles arranged in some particular way.

By analyzing the sediments, scientists can predict how much coral and algae were present on mesophotic reef environment, this new information has important implications from interpreting ancient reef environments found in fossils, where the abundance of diverse habitat forming species can not be analyzed visually.

«Exploitation of the same habitat, but key differences at important times of the year, suggests that competition between a single species works to preserve the different phenotypes we observed - whilst simultaneously creating the potential for so - called sympatric speciation, i.e. the potential for a new species to form without geographic isolation,» says Hawley.

HBOI researchers and colleagues collected more than 1,500 video - polarimetry measurements from live fish from distinct habitats under a variety of viewing conditions, and have revealed for the first time that fish have an «omnidirectional» solution they use to camouflage themselves, demonstrating a new form of camouflage in nature — light polarization matching.

As a product of Globalization, born in London to Cypriot parents, and now living in New York, Petros Chrisostomou explores the idea of the indigenous habitat, by creating these boxes from which to work in, and juxtaposing these items to form connections and disconnections.

The clear accord between the museum's new habitat and its collection has already inspired a major gift, in the form of some 500 works from the collection of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, many of which will be displayed here in the autumn in an exhibition co-organised with the Centre Pompidou.

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

Petra Feriancova employs a different photographic tactic in her work, reproducing the small colour snapshots of distant birds taken by her aunt in 1970s east Africa, while her new series of sculptural works evoke the abstract forms of various habitats through their incorporation of nests and shells.

Alice Channer: «Cold Blood» (through Dec. 23) In Alice Channer's promising United States solo debut the body is elusive and amphibious; just when you think you've pinned it down, it changes form or acquires a new habitat.

Facing criticism, biofuels industry forms new lobby group to influence lawmakers (7/25/2008) Under attack by politicians, aid groups, and environmentalists for driving up food prices and fueling destruction of ecologically sensitive habitats, some of the world's largest agroindustrial firms have formed a lobby group to influence consumers and lawmakers to support continued subsidies for biofuel production, reports Reuters.

Citi Habitats, which released its own report on the Manhattan rental market Thursday, said that 17 percent of all new leases it brokered last month carried some form of landlord sweetener — the most for May since 2010, when the rental and job markets were still climbing from the slumps of the recession.

Brokerage Citi Habitats, in its own report Thursday, said 19 percent of new Manhattan leases the firm arranged last month came with some form of landlord concession, such as a month's free rent or payment of the broker's fee.